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Published: April 24th 2006
March 20th - 26th
This weekend we finally did something I have wanted to do since we got here; go to Fort Cornwallis. The fort was established by Francis Light, a British trader who is linked with the Western colonization of Penang island. Since I am writing this a month after we visited it, and all our souvenier brochures are on their way back home, I can't tell you much more. The Penang tour...
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history lesson
let's see how much i remember from my history classes... francis light worked for east india company. he convinced the sultan of kedah out of giving him penang. he landed there in 1876 thereby starting british rule in peninsular malaysia. later on he acquired some land on the mainland then names province wellesley, now seberang perai.